Market Risk Contracts in London

Market Risk
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Market Risk in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Market Risk over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 309 239
Rank change year-on-year +36 -70 +205
Contract jobs citing Market Risk 80 82 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.64% 0.46% 1.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.77% 1.39% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 56 221
10th Percentile £550 £569 £524
25th Percentile £656 £625 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £788 £750
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £834 £850 £950
90th Percentile £896 £963 £975
England median daily rate £750 £788 £750
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +7.14%

All Generic Skills
London

Market Risk falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Market Risk
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Market Risk as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Market Risk in London

Market Risk
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Market Risk in London.

Daily rate trend for Market Risk in London

Market Risk
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Market Risk in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Market Risk in London

Market Risk
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Market Risk in London.

Hourly rate trend for Market Risk in London

Market Risk
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Market Risk within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London 0 20 £650 -21.21% 5
Market Risk
England

Market Risk
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (11.25%) Apache Spark
2 8 (10.00%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Endur
2 1 (1.25%) Bankmaster
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.75%) Azure
1 7 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (7.50%) AWS
3 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.00%) Big Data
2 9 (11.25%) Hadoop
3 6 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.00%) Data Mart
4 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.75%) Data Mining
5 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.75%) Power BI
5 3 (3.75%) Redis
5 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.50%) Tableau
7 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.25%) MS Access
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 8 (10.00%) Git
1 8 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.75%) JIRA
3 2 (2.50%) Ant
4 1 (1.25%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (63.75%) Finance
2 41 (51.25%) Banking
3 35 (43.75%) Social Skills
4 24 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (28.75%) Investment Banking
6 20 (25.00%) Front Office
7 3 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Legal
8 2 (2.50%) Back Office
8 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.25%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 46 (57.50%) Developer
2 17 (21.25%) Analyst
3 15 (18.75%) Senior
4 14 (17.50%) Java Developer
5 13 (16.25%) Business Analyst
6 12 (15.00%) Python Developer
6 12 (15.00%) Senior Developer
7 11 (13.75%) C# Developer
8 9 (11.25%) Lead
9 8 (10.00%) Apache Spark Developer
9 8 (10.00%) Lead Developer
9 8 (10.00%) Risk Analyst
10 7 (8.75%) .NET Developer
10 7 (8.75%) C# .NET Developer
11 6 (7.50%) Market Risk Developer
11 6 (7.50%) Risk Business Analyst
12 5 (6.25%) Quantitative Developer
12 5 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
13 4 (5.00%) Consultant
13 4 (5.00%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.75%) .NET
2 9 (11.25%) Spark Streaming
3 7 (8.75%) ASP.NET
3 7 (8.75%) Kafka
4 5 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.00%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 4 (5.00%) WPF
6 3 (3.75%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (3.75%) Java Concurrency
7 2 (2.50%) PySpark
8 1 (1.25%) HTML
8 1 (1.25%) HTML5
8 1 (1.25%) JSON
8 1 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.25%) React
8 1 (1.25%) Vue
8 1 (1.25%) WebSockets
8 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.00%) Derivative
2 15 (18.75%) Credit Risk
3 10 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
4 9 (11.25%) Equities
5 8 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (7.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (3.75%) Fixed Income
7 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
8 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.25%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 1 (1.25%) Pricing Data
9 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.75%) Analytics
1 39 (48.75%) Risk Management
2 28 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (31.25%) Agile
4 20 (25.00%) Mathematics
5 17 (21.25%) Greeks
6 15 (18.75%) Code Quality
6 15 (18.75%) Stress Testing
7 14 (17.50%) Risk Analytics
8 12 (15.00%) Regulatory Compliance
9 10 (12.50%) CI/CD
9 10 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (12.50%) Project Management
9 10 (12.50%) TDD
10 9 (11.25%) Memory Management
10 9 (11.25%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (11.25%) Risk Analysis
11 8 (10.00%) Batch Processing
11 8 (10.00%) DevOps
12 7 (8.75%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 33 (41.25%) Python
2 24 (30.00%) SQL
3 14 (17.50%) Java
4 11 (13.75%) C#
5 4 (5.00%) Haskell
6 3 (3.75%) Jython
7 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.50%) VBA
8 1 (1.25%) Bash
8 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (17.50%) Degree
2 9 (11.25%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) Basel II
2 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.75%) Basel III
4 2 (2.50%) PMO
5 1 (1.25%) COREP
5 1 (1.25%) EMIR
5 1 (1.25%) MiFID
5 1 (1.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) Control-M
2 1 (1.25%) Grafana
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 5 (6.25%) Murex
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.50%) Calypso
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle
4 1 (1.25%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.25%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.25%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.25%) Solace
4 1 (1.25%) TIBCO